{"id":1655849,"date":"2022-09-24T06:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655849"},"modified":"2022-09-24T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:53:33","slug":"tesla-countersues-state-agency-for-slapping-it-with-workplace-racism-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tesla-countersues-state-agency-for-slapping-it-with-workplace-racism-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Countersues State Agency for Slapping It With Workplace Racism Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftesla-countersues-state-agency-for-slapping-it-with-workplace-racism-complaint%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655849&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tesla, the world\u2019s most valuable carmaker, filed a countersuit against the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) after the agency alleged that the company\u2019s Fremont plant fostered racial bias.<\/p>\n<p>In its February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tesla.pdf\">complaint<\/a>, the CRD called the plant a \u201cracially segregated\u2019 workplace. The agency reported about a black worker at Fremont having heard racial slurs up to 50\u2013100 times a day. The workers also spotted racist graffiti at workstations, restroom walls, lunch tables, and other areas of the plant. Racial slurs are said to have been thrown around in Spanish, including words like <em>negrita<\/em> and <em>mayate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3525005209222022CrossComplaint.pdf\">countersuit<\/a>, Tesla calls CRD\u2019s conduct as \u201centirely inconsistent with the principles of fair notice, neutral investigations, good faith conciliation, and mandatory pre-suit mediation embedded in the FEHA (Fair Employment and Housing Act).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company argued in the lawsuit that the department adopted procedures for suing and investigating employers without seeking public comments\u2014a decision that violated laws of the state.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 3 Tesla was served with a one-page \u201cCause Finding\u201d by the CRD. The page did not detail any evidence to justify the agency\u2019s reason to sue, according to the firm.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 9, the agency filed a civil complaint, with causes for action filed in March. These actions of the CRD violated California\u2019s FEHA policy, Tesla insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that CRD did not engage in meaningful conciliation efforts or good faith mediation with Tesla, consistent with its underground regulation that no such pre-suit obligations apply to it under the FEHA,\u201d the company said in the countersuit.<\/p>\n<h2>Racism Complaints, Lack of Evidence<\/h2>\n<p>The Fremont factory accommodates more than 15,000 workers, and black workers are segregated to the lowest levels, the CRD complaint alleges.<\/p>\n<p>Black workers make up 20 percent of factory operatives like engine and other machine assemblers, but only 3 percent of professionals, and there are no black executives, it says.<\/p>\n<p>Black workers complained to the agency that they were assigned to more physically demanding roles, paid less, more often laid off than other workers, and given the lowest-level contract roles.<\/p>\n<p>Black workers are disciplined more often than non-blacks and are often denied advancement opportunities, the complaint states.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has reached out to Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>In the countersuit, Tesla dismissed such accusations, pointing out that the agency failed to name a single Tesla employee who experienced such racial harassment. Neither does the complaint provide a date, location, or factual context for any of the alleged harassment, it pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Tesla had tried to get a judge to dismiss the agency\u2019s lawsuit citing similar arguments. However, the state judge denied the request.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-naveen-athrappully\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla, the world\u2019s most valuable carmaker, filed a countersuit against the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) after the agency alleged that the company\u2019s Fremont plant fostered racial bias.In its February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}